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So this week I was a little inspired by a recent dream. I have been focused on new visualization techniques by drawing whole items in my head with the Illustrator interface. I start with a vision of the pen tool on the art board. As I begin to add anchors and edit handles a drawing begins to come to life on my mind’s “monitor”. As I near completion of each drawing, I am asleep and my dreams become incredibly vivid. I have been practicing my lucid dreaming and when I use my “drawing” visualization they become dramatically more intense. While drawing in my head last night I kept getting visions of eyes in the dark. When I started to dream, I was accompanied by an owl while walking through a unique array of architecture. The owl never spoke but in my dream I could hear his thoughts and he could hear mine. This was not like conversation, it was more literal, more primal, incredibly simplistic and spartan. He had no name and I cannot recall his color…but his eyes. His eyes were the way I could hear his voice. Once I looked in his eyes my dream became more intense, each glance back at my avian friend the dream twisted and changed. I was not sure if he was guiding me, or taunting me, either way I have had the thoughts of “The Owl of Minerva” from Roman mythology in my head all day. The influence of this became so strong that I had to draw a representation of this symbol my unconscious decided to bless me with. To come full circle the wallpaper, like all of my wallpapers, was created all in Illustrator which was the vehicle for the visions in the first place. [tags]wallpaper wednesday, Minerva, Roman Mythology, Illustrator, dream, eyes[/tags]